Toshiba Tecra A10

Introduction

This is a guide to running Linux with the Toshiba Tecra A10 laptop.

This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.

This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Toshiba Tecra A10. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Toshiba Tecra A10 page on LapWik.

Summary

Optical Drive: If you have it set as AHCI (SATA) in BIOS, you can avoid the xfer mode error messages by starting the drive with a CD or DVD in it. This is the only way I have found that is easy, I had tried another updated custom kernel and had success in changing this while breaking other things.

Graphics: Dual screen (non cloned) does not work with Graphics Acceleration. I cannot get it to work with 2 screens and different resolutions, only a cloned display. Trying to set a “Virtual” line in xorg.conf with acceleration enabled will cause X not to start and it complains about how it cannot allocate memory for the front buffer.

This is all with Fedora 10.

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